Improvements in electro-magnetic apparatus adapted to the generation of electric currents for exercising and other hygienic purposes.

  • Allison, John Herbert
Date:
1884
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Credit: Improvements in electro-magnetic apparatus adapted to the generation of electric currents for exercising and other hygienic purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rvA VWAAAA/WVAAAAAA/WVAA.^ /\AAAA \AAA A.D. 1884, 28th April. N° 6908. / V VW\A/WV V WVW, Improvements in Electro-magnetic Apparatus Adapted to the Generation of Electric Currents for Exercising and other Hygienic Purposes. [Communicated from abroad by James Henry Shaiu, of the City, County, and State df New York, in the United States of America, Mechanic.] PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. I, Herbert John Allison, of the firm of Allison Brothers, of 52 Chancery Lane, London, in the county of Middlesex, Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for “ Improvements in Electro-Magnetic Apparatus ADAPTED TO THE GENERATION OF ELECTRIC CURRENTS FOR EXERCISING AND OTHER 5 hygienic PURPOSES,” a communication to me from abroad by James Henry Shaw, of the City, County and State of New York, in the United States of America, Mechanic, to be as follows:— This invention relates to electrical dumb-bells and other forms of exercising apparatus enclosing an electrical battery, an induction coil and a rheotome for the IQ generation of electrical currents; and has for its object a more simple and perfect adaptation of the apparatus to the production of either the primary ; the secondary ; or the primary and secondary currents combined; to the adjustment of the power or intensity of said currents j and to their application to the body through suitable e 1 ectrodes. 15 It consists in the combination with the rheophore dumb-bell or device which encloses the electro-magnetic battery and inductorium, and which is provided with suitable external manual contact and conducting plates and binding-screws or connections for electrode wires, of a separate electrode in the form of a dumb-bell or other manual exercising device also provided with external manual contact- 20 plates and binding-screws or connections lor a conducting wire, and of a conducting wire adapted to connect the rheophore dumb-bell with said electiode dumb-bell and to close an electrical circuit from the former through the latter and through the hands and body of the person holding in either hand the rheophore and the 25 It consists furthermore in the construction of the rheophore dumb-bell with an enclosed metallic cylinder or damper fitted to encircle the coil and insulated therefrom and which is adapted to bo moved back and forth longitudinally ovei [Price 6cfc]